Well.....here's my approved RPG thread about mining and gold digging in Western Mudos.
MINING EXPERIENCE THE BACKSTORY: Deep in Western Mudos of Oddworld, was a little gold digging operation in the Hoss River, owned by the most greediest Wolvark, Hoss. He had it all. All the gold to make his hunger for Moolah pleased. Then....the most terrible thing happened. The Hoss River was connected to the large Mongo River so eversince Mr. Sekto dammed everything up, less water was rushing through to wash up any gold at all. Hoss, saddened and angered by this act, tried sueing Sekto but was unsuccseful and lost the case, making him lose half of his fortune. He had just enough money to start a second, but more expensive, bussiness. Coal mining. Nearby the Hoss River, Hoss opened up his coal mines and hired few miners to work in them. When he had enough money, he set up a Mine town for those that worked in his coal mines.....Then things changed.....Mr. Sekto and his dam both fell after the victory of Stranger. Now the Mongo river was freed. All of the water started coming back, rushing in gold and other highly prized minerals. Outlaws and other miners alike are now going all out to get them.......
SETTING: Mostly will take place in a Mine Town, Coal Mines, and Hoss River at a dry, near-desert forest.
MAIN RPG RULES: All basic RPG Rules apply to The MINING EXPERIENCE. Those rules can be found here.
(PLEASE READ THESE RULES)
http://www.oddworldforums.net/showthread.php?t=15073
MINING EXPERIENCE RPG RULES:
1. Everybody may not make more than FOUR characters.
2. You must obviously post your character(s)' profile(s) above your first post here.
3. Everybody may only post here FOUR times per day.
4. (Not really a rule but I felt like placing this here) You don't have to be a miner. You can be an Outlaw, maybe a protestant against the mines, native characters to the land, whatever that has to do with the minig/gold digging operations.
OTHER STUFF: This isn't important either but....Due to that no NPCs rule, we're gonna need a few characters to play as an Outlaw for a gang.....Now you don't have to. It'd help out the story alot. But you don't have to.
CHARACTER PROFILE LAYOUT: Here's how all character profiles should look like.
Name: *Character's name*
Species: *What Oddworld Creature your character is*
Gender: *Male? Female? Possibly non?*
Age: *Age of your character*
Position: *Your character's heiarchy/career*
Personality: *How does your character normally behave?*
Appearance: *Describe what your character looks like*
Equipment(Optional): *What things does your character normally carry around/is equipped with?*
History: *The history/bio of your character*
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(My characters)
Name: Hoss
Species: Wolvark
Gender: Male
Age: 36 (Earth Years)
Position: OWNER of the coal mining and gold prospecting operations.
Personality: Unlike most industrial managers/bosses, Hoss is a normally calm and nice person. He likes to 'distinguish' himself from the other Wolvarks, always thinking of them as untelligent brutes. However, whenever something doesn't go his way, he gets VERY VERY angry. Nearly mad enough to punch an ordinary object. He also works people too much whenever moolah is involved...
Appearance: Like any other Wolvark although, he's slightly fatter. He wears a small, animal hide vest, wears torn up jeans, no shoes, and his belly can be seen in plain sight.
History: Hoss was born in a rundown industrial city. Abandoned by his mother as a child and forced to stay with an alcoholic father. In schooing, he has done very well, higher than all his other disciples. However, he also lead a rough life out on the streets as part of a Wolvark gang that would beat up and rob the innocent. when he grew older, many industries would have welcomed him to be their pres. or manager but he turned them all down in order to live in a 'rough life'. He moved over to Western Mudos for he heard there was a big gold rush in an unnamed river. He had found the large river, suprisingly with nobody else around. He opened up his own small gold prospecting crew and dug up for gold. He then named the river, Hoss River, after himself....(Continues in the Backstory)
Name: Skylla
Species: Slig
Gender: Female
Age: 24 (Earth Years)
Position: Hoss's Personal bodyguard
Personality: She is always care-free and fun-loving. Even in bad times, she tries to brighten everything up. However, she is depressed in the back of her mind for her horrible past. Skylla also shares a very small hatred towards weapons of any kind.
Equipment: To her dismay, she occaisonally carries a custom-made wrist crossbow, while on duty.
Appearance: Like any other Slig. Although she has purple goggles/eyes instead of red ones like other Sligs.
History: She was born in a breeding facility, owned by a suppressing Vykkers Factory. As a child, she was beaten down to near death by Interns and Vykkers, in order to become a merciless, lethal warrior. She went into hard, tough training, to learn how to handle any available weapon. When she grew older, Skylla was then forced to help built the Vykkers' robotic 'secret weapon'. She was tormented even more on the job and couldn't take it. Out of revenge, she pretended to accidently break the robot's engine, destroying the whole weapon. In anger, the Vykkers tried building her into a robotic guard but never performed the operation on her since they were in the middle of a trial. They lost. The whole facility was shut down and Skylla was finally free. She wanted a wild, close to nature life so she went to Western Mudos where she soon met, Hoss the Wolvark. They became friends after getting to know eachother and are now big bussiness partners.
Name: Wally
Species: Sloggie
Gender: Male
Age: Three months
Position: Skylla's pet
Personality: Very playful and obediant. He hates it whenever Hoss is overworking Skylla and would respond to that act by trying to bite his behind.
History: Wally was one of the many Sloggies born into captivity by the Vykkers. In fact. He came from the same lab that Skylla worked in. He was expecting to grow into a murderous beast so the Vykkers sent Skylla to train him. She secretly though, treated him kindly and like any other REAL pet. They soon became attached to eachother. After the Vykkes were sued, they sold away the Slogs/Sloggies and Skylla managed to buy her friend Wally from them.
Name: Gegnar
Species: Outlaw
Gender: Male
Age: 36 (Earth Years)
Position:Leader of a notorious Outlaw/Slig gang
Personality: Very sarcastic towards others but mostly DEAD SERIOUS when it comes to bussiness.
Equipment: Besides using his whole gang to back him up in a fight, he also has two Vykker-made rifles that can fire off Fleeches.
Appearance: A rather tall and big-bellied Outlaw than usual (Kind of like D. Caste Raider). He wears a reddish brown poncho and has torn up overalls underneath it.
History: Gegnar was born in the same city, and at the same time, as Hoss. When growing up, Gegnar and Hoss were both friends. They also were successful in school and also joined their own street gangs. However, one day, Gegnar started abusing alchohalism and was soon flunking in school. His whole life was then ruined and he blamed it all on his ex-friend, Hoss. He soon got kicked out of his old street gang and befriended a street-living slig. as the years passed, many sligs and outlaws started joining his gang and soon, moved into Western Mudos, where the authority wasn't THAT bad (Never heard of Stranger at that time). When Hoss opened up his gold-digging crew, he knew he would need assistance to guard his territory from thieves and hired Gegnar's gang. After a long and loud meeting about it, Gagnar agreed to have his flunkies guard the perimeter IF he would be paid 500 Moolah worth of gold once every week. When Hoss's gold bussiness fell, Gegnar ditched him. Now, he swears revenge on Hoss and wants to get back ALL of the gold that Hoss never paid him....
Oddworld: Mining Experience
I thought they were supposed to be nothing to do with the storyline?
